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Title: The wild turkey and its hunting
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949 Jordan, Charles L., d. 1909 Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Turkeys
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the collection of the Biolog-ical Survey. When the Spaniards first enteredMexico they landed near the present city ofVera Cruz and made their way thence to theCity of Mexico. At this time they found domesticated turkeysamong the Indians of that region, and within afew years the birds were introduced into Spain.2 *Nelson, E. W. Description of a New Subspecies of Meleagrisgallopavo and proposed changes in the nomenclature of certain NorthAmerican birds. Auk, XVII, April 1900, pp. 120-123. 2Among the luxuries belonging to the high condition of civilizationexhibited by the Mexican nation at the time of the Spanish conquestwas the possession of Montezuma by one of the most extensive zoologicalgardens on record, numbering nearly all the animals of that country, withothers brought at much expense from great distances, and it is statedthat turkeys were supplied as food in large numbers daily to the beastsof prey in the menagerie of the Mexican Emperor. (Baird, ibid pi>.288, 289.) Plate IV
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Fig. 12. Superior view of the cranium of a large male tame turkey, with rightnasal bone in) attached in situ. Specimen in Dr. Shufeldts private collection.Fig. 13. Left lateral view of the skull of a female turkey, probably a wild one.No. 10684, Coll. U. S. National Museum. (See Fig. 8, PI. II.) c, bony entranceto ear. Compare contour line of cranium with Fig. 14. Fig. 14. Left lateralview of the cranium of a tame turkey; male. Dr. Shufeldts private collection.Fig. 15. Direct posterior view of the cranium of a tame turkey, probably afemale, pf, postfrontal. Specimen in Dr. Shufeldts collection. Fig. 16. Skull of awild Florida turkey, seen from below (M. g. osceola). (See Fig. 10, PI. II.) Bonesnamed in Fig. 18. Photo natural size by Dr. Shufeldt and considerably reduced. THE TURKEY HISTORIC 75 The part of the country occupied by theSpanish during the first few years of the conquestin which wild turkeys occur is the eastern slopeof the Cordillera in Vera Cruz, and there is everyreason

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